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...Skeleton Inspection. Like a new tenant peering in all the closets, the 83rd Congress can be expected to make a careful inspection of the skeletons left behind by the Truman Administration. Investigating committees will continue to dig at Communism and corruption in Government. Conduct of the Korean war (including the ammunition shortage) and administration of the supersecret Central Intelligence Agency are other likely prospects for probing. More than one committee will be anxious to get a look at the administrative records Harry Truman has kept out of the range of congressional eyes...
...obviously willing to rattle any skeleton in the Truman closet to divert public attention from a snafu in supply. Sample Reeder rattles: 1) When Korea began, "we thought, and many responsible people said, that it was just a police action"; 2) ammunition stocks are low partly because of the "atmosphere of economy" enforced by onetime (1949-50) Defense Secretary Louis Johnson...
...painted cavity below lay the all but pulverized skeleton of a middle-aged man. His fine cloth raiment was in tatters, but his burial jewelry made as rich a display as it had when he was interred 13 centuries ago. A jade diadem covered his skull, and chunky jade earrings lay where his ears had been. A jade mask with inlaid emerald eyes covered his face. Inside the mouth was a jade bead, and a long jade necklace hung over a beaded breastplate...
...when a new dean does take over, he will find a skeleton of a school. Walter Gropius, who led Design to the pinnacle of architectural prominency, left this year, rather than work with a flimsy budget. Many of the other professors have remained to teach part time only, supplementing small salaries with outside contracts. The rest strain under an unbearably heavy load, leaving no time for research or individual attention for the school's students. No new dean can merely step in and pull the school back together again with one decisive motion; its parts have drifted away, some irretrievably...
...major jobs is to train and coordinate the defensive backfields. In the early part of the week, Williams will have a skeleton junior varsity team (just backs and ends) run through enemy pass patterns as they have been reported by the Crimson's scouts...